Cloth stitching and cutting machine



' F. R. EVANS cLoTH sTITcHING Aun CUTTING MACHINE Filed April 4. 1921 hun,

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FRANK R. EVANS, OF ZANESVLLE, OHO.

CLOTH STTCEING ND CUTTING MACHINE.

Application led April 4, 1921. Serial No. 458,335.

To all cti/lam t may concer/a: through the machine embodying the invenw Be it known that l, FnxNK EVANS, a tion. citizen of the United States', residing at in this figure the numeral 46 indicates in Zanesville, in the county of Muskingum general the frame of the machine and 47 in- 60 and State of Ohio, have invented certain dicates the bed plate thereof. rlhe stitching new and useful improvements in Cloth mechanism is indicated in general in this Stitching and Cutting Machines, of which ligure by the numeral 48 and embodies the the following is a specification. usual presser foot 49 and needle 50, both This invention relates to improvements in operating above the bed plate 47. ln carry- 65 cloth working machines and more particuing ont the invention a roll 5l of cloth which larly to a combined machine for longitudiis to serve as the facing material of the nally stitching cloth and simultaneously cutblanks is supported at the front of the mating the same into strips, the purpose of the chine as for example upon a shaft 52'mount` invention being to prepare strips from which ed in suitable bearing brackets 53, and the 70 gauntlet cuff blanks may be cut although the cloth is lcd from this roll over the rear side principles of the invention are applicable of' a stationary tensioning roll or rod 54, to many other uses. thence over the forward and upper sides of Heretofore in making cuif blanks for the a similar tensioning rod 55 arranged above manufacture ofl gauntlets where each blank the rod 54, and then over the upper side of 75 comprises two 01' more plies as for example a similar rod 56 arranged above the forward a facing ply and a lining or stilfening ply, edge of the bed plate 47 and in spaced reit has been the usual practice tocut the plies lation thereto from which point the cloth by means of a die machine from a number passes beneath the presser feet 49 of the sevof sheets of cloth arranged in a pile. After eral stitching assemblages, of which any 80 the blank plies have been cut in this mandesired number may be employed. The maner, it has been necessary to assemble them terial which is to comprise the lining or by hand and bring their margins into regisstiffening plies of the finished blanks is led tration after which the plies comprising from the roll 57 mounted for example upon each blank have been stitched together or the shaft 58 upon the rear side of the frame 85 80 otherwise united. This old method has con 4G ot the machine and forwardly and upsumed considerable time and involved much wardly over the tensioning roll 0r rod 59 labor and it presents the further disadvanupon the front of the said frame -from which tage that care must be exercised to properly point the cloth'is led over a similar rod or register the margins of superposed plies in roll 60 and thence as at 6l over the forward 90 assembling the plies to form the composite edge of the bed plate 47, passing in a iiat blank. and smoothly tensioned condition ,over the The present invention therefore has as surface of this Vplate and beneath the presser one of its primary objects to provide a. mafeet 49 and likewise beneath the material chine so constructed and operating in such which is led from the roll 5l. t will be ob- 95 40 a manner that two or-more superposed sheets served by reference to the drawing that the of clot-h fed therethrough will be stitched tocloth from the roll 57 passes beneath the tengether along suitably spaced longitudinal sioning rod 5G which rod is as stated suitlines and the cloth is simultaneously slit or ably spaced above the upper surface of theV divided into strips of the required width, bed plate 47 so that up to the time the two 100 which strips may be subsequently cut into stretches of cloth are passed beneath the suitable lengths to form the blanks. By'this presser foot 49, they are substantially' out of method the several plies are securely united contact and neither can therefore exert any by the lines of stitching simultaneously with distorting strain upon the other. the cutting of the cloth into strips so that The two plies of cloth are fed continu- 105 60 registration of the margins of the strips is ously past the several stitching assemblages automatically effected and true parallelism and over the upper surface of the bed plate is maintained between the lines of stitching 47 by being drawn between upper and and the lines of incision which divide the lower feeding rolls, indicated respectively cloth into the several strips. by the numerals 62 and 63, these rolls being 110 ln the accompanying drawings, the iigmounted respectively above and below the ure is a vertical longitudinal sectional view said bed plate 47 with their adjacent peripheral portions engaging andreceiving between them thecloth plies in the plane of the upper surface of this plate. rThe roll (5iis driven in any suitable manner and the roll 62 is maintained in frictional contactwith the cloth plies and suitably tensioned with relation to the roll 63 as for example by springs 64 acting against its end bearings or journals. After passing the rolls 62 and 63, they cloth plies are led beneath a' tensioning roll or rod 65 mounted transversely in the frame of the machine and thence over an idle roll 66 formed at suitable intervals with circumferential grooves 67, and cooperating with this roll 66 is a roll 68jwhich carries a plurality of spaced circular knives 69 operating at their peripheral portions within the grooves 67 of the roll 66. The roll 68 may be rotated in any suitable manner as for example by a belt 70 operated from any suitable source of power and after the cloth plies leave the roll GG they are passed beneath a tensioning rod or roll 7l and are finally wound upon a shaft 72 demountably,supported at the rear of the frame of the machine and rotated in any desired manner. It is preferable that the roll 66 be supported in bea-rings 7 3 provided at the ends of supporting arms 74 which extend rearwardly from a shaft 75 mounted in the frame of the machine and these arms, or the shaft upon which they are fixed, are

adapted to be rocked through the medium of a hand lever 76 connected eitherwith one of the 'arms or with the said. shaft and adapted to be held in positions of adjustment by means of a segmental rack or other suitable means indicated by the numeral 77, By thus mountingthe roll 66, the same may be Adropped or lowered from operative relation to the knife roll GS so as to permit of arrangement of the cloth plies between these rolls in the event this becomes necessary dur-A ing the operation of the machine.

From the foregoing description of the invention it will be understood that as the two plies of cloth from the rolls land 57 are passed over the surface of the 'bed plate ai' and beneath the presser feet 49, they will be united between suitably spaced lines of stitching and as they pass beneath the tensioning rods or rolls 65A and 7l by which they are held smoothly and properly tensioned over the upper surface of the grooved roll 66, they are acted upon by the knives 69 and are cut longitudinally into a plu- Y rality of strips, which strips after leaving the rod or ro'll 7l, are wound upon the `shaft 72. Y

eralrolls and located in a planeV below the bed plate, a' hand lever connected with the shaft whereby the shaft may be rotatably adjusted, means for holding the hand lever in positions of. adjustment, arms extending from the shaft, .hearings at the ends the arms, a roll havingtrunnions journaled .in

.the said bearings and located beneath the last mentioned roll and movable, upon adjustmcnt of the shaft, into and out of coactive relation thereto, the last mentioned roll ha ving peripheral grooves to receive the cuttingV edges of the blades upon the 1nlade- Y carrying roll, atake-up roll, and guide rods extending longitudinally parallel to and at opposite sidesoil' the upper surface of the grooved roll and tensioning the material passing therebeneath and over grooved roll to the talre-uproll.

ln testimony whereofl afliX my signature.

FRANK R. EVANS. [n s] the saidy 

